As thousands of Ball State students flocked to any warm coast they could find this past spring break, six students along with Sheryl Swingley, internship coordinator and instructor of journalism, bundled up and headed to Eastern Europe for a week in Budapest, Hungary. While not exactly the usual location for college students over spring break, […]
The “traditional” journalist is changing rapidly, and Ball State University has taken notice in terms of revamping its curriculum to equip this new and growing generation of news contributors. Following nearly two years of planning and development, the Department of Journalism has revised its master of arts curriculum for the journalism graduate program. After all, […]
Ball State students are taking their journalistic skills to the next level with the development of a new, comprehensive program that showcases students’ reporting and multimedia talents to readers of two nearby newspapers. News-Ink, launched in January 2012, operates as a student-driven news bureau for the Winchester News-Gazette and Hartford City News-Times. The project, funded […]
Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines were just a few of the countries represented on campus this past summer by aspiring young journalists from across the globe. Although each of these students represented unique cultural backgrounds and were only on campus for a five-week study program, all left with an increased knowledge about new media and […]
The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) officially turned 100 on November 30, 2012. As the celebration of AEJMC’s centennial continues, Ball State’s Department of Journalism joined in the excitement with a birthday cake as hundreds of other colleges and universities are planning similar celebrations. AEJMC is a nonprofit organization of more […]
The dynamic duo, Donna Fenn and Jake Sasseville, gave Ball State students a look into entrepreneurialism and the millennial generation during the latest David Letterman Distinguished Professional Lecture and Workshop Series. While Fenn, author of Upstarts! How GenY Entrepreneurs are Rocking the World of Business, provided insight into the ways in which students can be […]
Cardinal Communications, Ball State University’s creative communications agency, hired 36 new members this month for an agency total of 74 members. Members range from freshmen to graduate students with majors in public relations, telecommunications, advertising, graphic design and sales. With the leadership of student account directors, staff members are completing work for sixteen clients ranging […]
Dr. David Sumner, professor of journalism, recently traveled to Honduras to teach two days of writing workshops for the company writers of Grupo OPSA, a newspaper based in the Latin American country. The opportunity to travel to Honduras came as a bit of a surprise to Dr. Sumner. “I received an e-mail from a friend […]
New media can be found everywhere on a college campus, from a student’s hand-held smart phone to tablets being used to present class information. That influence expands well beyond campus limits, as advances in new media are shaping the way news outlets reach their audience. Ball State students had a chance to hear first-hand how […]
Dr. Adam Kuban, assistant professor of journalism, was awarded a $2,500 grant from the Arthur W. Page Center for Integrity in Public Communication from Penn State University for the creation of teaching modules. The Page Center awards grants to support scholars and professionals making important contributions to knowledge, practice, or public understanding of ethics and […]